2026 will not reward organizations that adopt more technology.
It will reward those that decide better, execute faster, and reduce regret.

Based on converging insights from Gartner, PwC, Deloitte, and direct market experience, here’s what is firmly on the CIO and technology executive agenda—and where concierge advisory creates leverage.

The organizations that won in 2025 didn’t chase more technology—they made better decisions with it.

As 2025 came to a close, I’ve spent time reflecting—not on how fast technology evolved, but on what actually drove progress in an increasingly complex environment.

We’ve all benefited from extraordinary innovation in cloud computing: Elastic scale. Quick deployments. Global reach overnight.

But many technology and finance leaders are now asking a hard question: if cloud was designed to accelerate innovation and reduce cost, why does it increasingly feel like a trap?

For the last decade, cloud was sold as liberation: faster deployment, infinite scale, pay-as-you-go efficiency. It worked — until the economics, behaviors, and incentives of the hyperscalers shifted. Today, IT leaders must confront an uncomfortable truth: the cloud that once served as a strategic enabler has, in many cases, become a margin trap.